You know your nurse brain is still at work when....

[EmpathyInAction]

You see a curved tube from a broken shampoo pump on the floor and your first thought is "Why is that trach tube on the floor??"

Feel free to add your own.

[bell1962]

Me too!!

Been doing this for YEARS.

Also signing paperwork with title...

[abc123RN]

Your grown kids shake the Ibuprofen into the cap instead of their hand, you're a nurse and taught them well!

[JerseyTomatoMDCrab, BSN]

Also signing paperwork with title...

Every restaurant server and bank teller in town knows I'm RN BSN by now.

[rnsrgr8t]

You look for someone to double check the dose of insulin you are giving your cat. When you realize you live alone, you make the cat double check the dose. Because insulin Must! be double checked!!

I had a cat who had diabetes and I did the same thing!! Felt SO wrong giving it without someone double checking me!!! LOL!!

[Angelicpurl]

I signed my son's school excuse with my title and school excused it immediately telling my husband that he only needs a medical note if our son is out for 3 days.

[Artsy_RN]

When I find myself looking for veins on people haha

[Eleven011]

When I fill my pillbox at home and carefully pour the meds from the bottle into the cap instead of my hand.

I have two kids on antibiotics right now and they look at me like I have two heads when I do this to them!

[Farawyn]

When someone is on antibiotics and you remind them to finish the entire prescription, as if they cannot read the label for themselves.

Also asking if they take it "BID" or "Q8H"

Using "c" for with and "s" for without.

[bluebirdflyx]

When trying to help my dad with his home medication and I tell him these are the morning meds and these will be on night shift. He says "what do you mean night shift?" ...Nevermind, I meant night time.

Hearing my microwave timer go off and having a mini panic attack because for a split second I forget where I am and it sounds like a bed alarm.

[Farawyn]

Knowing EXACTLY how long to put popcorn in the microwave before it burns.

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

You, after staying 5 hours in line in a very hot day, at last there to see the David statue by Michelangelo, and the first thing that comes into your mind is: "good veins, no prob with 14G here".

Or when on a nice summer evening you sit enjoying breeze and hear a mourning dove' singing, and your reaction is "somebody, please shut off that d*** monitor".

Is he not magnificent?????? Saw him last summer and I literally caught my breath! Next time get the Firenze Card, front of the line for everything, better than a Disney Speed Pass!

[brownbook]

I was sending a birthday card to a friend, writing a short note inside, I crossed out a word and started to write above it, "error wrong chart". Yes we still use pen and paper charting where I work.